Maybe more encouragement of caching where NPM downloads into places where it can be checked into source control. Then you can have the beginner friendliness of NPM, but you are only relying on it being up when you want to add or update a package.
Pretty much the only thing needed to accomplish this is to discourage the use of the global flag, and a few strong notes in the documentation and tutorials to check in your node_modules folder that remind people that if you don't check it in, you have established a build time dependency on NPM being up/correct.
Pretty much the only thing needed to accomplish this is to discourage the use of the global flag, and a few strong notes in the documentation and tutorials to check in your node_modules folder that remind people that if you don't check it in, you have established a build time dependency on NPM being up/correct.
edit: corrected spelling